In article , Jon Berndt wrote:
"Scott M. Kozel" wrote in message

It's an unabashed WAG, with a little help from the above data. I can't
claim to have interpreted it exactly right, but I'll be interested to
see
how close I got.

My guess is in this image he

http://tinyurl.com/3dnub

It's a 650k .jpg image. The blue oval marks the spot where I am
guessing
Spirit might have come to rest, although maybe it will end up being a
little
farther north and/or a little farther downtrack. The blue oval is a
couple 2
or three miles in length. The entire image is contained in Gusev
crater.

Comments? Other guesses?

How long will it take NASA to determine the exact coordinates of the
landing site?

Scott M. Kozel Highway and Transportation History Websites

I'm sure they are working on it feverishly now. I suppose they could ask
the "Martian Government" ( Martian Press Reporting post ;-)

IIRC, the chute deployed slightly later than anticipated. The DIMES images
have given a good fix during the entry - I think they are slightly downtrack
of where they expected to be - perhaps ten or fifteen km. Once they narrow
down the probable location, I think they'll try some imaging from either
Odyssey or MGS, given the technique described he

http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/.../04/index.html

That could be definitive. I don't know what other techniques they use in
precisely locating the lander on the surface.

Radio triangulation, IIRC. The fact that we can also go and get a visual
triangulation on it wrt observable points *from the ground* will
probably help... ;-)

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-Andrew Gray